In addition to the Virginia coaching staff, the camp will feature collegiate, post collegiate, and elite athletes, as well as other high school and college coaches to provide varying perspectives on the sport. Also, members of UVA's cross country teams will interact with campers throughout the week. Camp staff will provide personal, professional attention to all campers.

Jason Dunn director of Central Virginia Running Camp, enters his 7th year as the head cross country coach at The University of Virginia. 2005 proved to be the best year yet under Dunn's tutelage as school history was established on the track and on the cross country course. Virginia's cross country program has been represented at the NCAA championships in each of Dunn's six years in Charlottes-ville. Most recently, in the fall of 2005, both men's and women's teams qualified for the NCAA championships in the same season for the first time in school history. This accomplishment followed on the heels of the first ACC title in cross country for a Virginia team since 1984 as the men's team brought home the victory in an impressive fashion with 6 runners earning All-ACC honors. Emily Harrison added an All-ACC accolade on the women's side as she earned her second consecutive All-Conference and All-Region honors before narrowly missing All-America honors with her 38th place finish at NCAA's. For his efforts, Dunn was honored as the ACC men's cross country coach of the year. Prior to arriving at Virginia, Dunn served as an assistant coach for Arizona State's Men's and Women's cross country and track & field teams. During his collegiate years at William & Mary, Dunn served as team captain and belonged to two NCAA qualifying cross-country teams. He also earned all-conference honors in cross-country and on the track where he was the 1996 CAA Champion in the steeplechase. Dunn also received All-East Honors in the steeplechase and went on to qualify provisionally for the NCAA Championships and Olympic Trials.

Dawn Cromer (formerly Dawn Cleary) enters her fourth year as the head counselor for CVRC; she is also a volunteer assistant coach of the UVA cross country and track & field programs. Cromer spent her collegiate years at UVA, and earned All-America honors with a sixth place finish at the 2003 NCAA Championships in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Later that season, she finished fifth at the US National Championships in the same event with a personal best 9:59.30 (the current UVA school record). Also while at UVA, Cromer helped the women's cross country squad to 9th and 20th place finishes at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and is ranked in the top 10 of the school's history in the 5k. Cromer continues to train and compete at a very high level. She placed 7th in the steeplechase at the 2004 US Olympic Trials, competed in both the 2005 and 2006 US National Championships, and pushes on toward a goal of contending for the 2008 US Olympic Team. She has stayed close to UVA throughout, and still resides in Charlottesville. Dawn is formerly from Woodbridge, VA and competed in track and cross country for Woodbridge Senior High School.

Former UVA distance runner and coach, Dana Coons has also been apart of the CVRC staff from the start. Coons served UVA as an assistant cross country and track & field coach for two years, after graduating in 2001. She moved to Minnesota in 2003 to continue her running career at Team USA Minnesota, a post-collegiate training center. While there training, Coons went back into coaching, this time at the high school level as she assisted the Burnsville High School cross-country team in 2005. She moved back to Charlottesville in 2006 to resume training with coach Jason Dunn, and works with the UVA athletes as a volunteer assistant. Coons is currently training for the 2008 US Olympic Trials - Marathon. She qualified provisionally for the Trials in her marathon debut at Twin Cities Marathon in 2005. She assured her qualification by running a personal best 2:38:18 at the 2006 Chicago Marathon; finishing as the 3rd American woman overall. She competed at the 10k distance in the 2004 Olympic Trials, and was ranked 10th nationally in the event in 2002 by “Track and Field News”. Her collegiate highlights include finishing 1st in the 10k and 2nd in the 5k at the 2001 ACC Championships, and qualifying for the 2001 NCAA Championships in the 10k. Dana is formerly from Vienna, VA and ran track and cross country for Madison High School

Brad Hunt joins the CVRC staff bringing a wealth of experience in the sport.  Hunt came to Virginia as an assistant coach in the fall of 05' after seven years at Kent State University, where he served as coach for the middle distance runners and long sprinters as well as an assistant cross country coach. In 2005, Hunt's middle distance athletes set five school records, including 7:26.61 in the 4x800m relay in the Championship of America at the Penn Relays. Under Hunt's tutelage, Mike Inge, the 2003 800m US Junior National Champion, earned two NCAA All-American honors at 800m, and finished ninth at the 2004 Olympic Trials in the 800m, posting a lifetime best of 1:47.23. Hunt is a 1997 Kent State graduate, captaining both the cross country and track teams his senior year.

If you have any questions regarding Central Virginia Running Camp please e-mail: CVRC@runcvrc.com